The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1887-02-12

He'd practice en- the harp.
'Twould make the birds Of heaven hide
Their heads 10 hear him sing;
He'd muriher half the country side
Wild pebbles and sling.
And thin the sootherin' ways he knew
To capture young and ould;
The female sex--Och, whillieul
Twas there wor his best hould.
Win David was some eighteen years
Ofage, or thereabout,
Betwane the haythen and Tudaar
A bloody war broke out.
His brothers listed for the war:
Begorral they wor' daises-
His father took contract for
To sell the army chaases.
"Dayid," the ould man said one day,
YOU'D loike little thramp;
Jist load some chaases on the dhray,
And take 'em down to camp"
lie dhruy' to camp and sought straighlway
The commissary's tint;
He got voucher for his pay,
Thin to his brothers whit.
He found 'em loolin' mighty blue,
And in dreadful fright;
Retrate was what they wished to do,
But divil bit 10 fight.
A big, black bully, tin fut tall,
Was bluffin' all the Jews,
And throops and staff and Gin'ral Saul,
Wor quakiH' in their shoes.
Goliath was the craythurs name,
A bowling Philistine,
His sword was loike the lightnin's fame,
His spear was loikc pine.
He wore upon his back and breast
Tin thousand pounds of brass;
The shine Of him completely chressed,
Would smash a lookin' glass.
And livery day the basic would sthrut
Iniammed wild drink and pride,
And kept all Israel closely shut
In lines well fortified
Come out, he'd bawl, Come out of there
Feiant your dirthy works;
Come, ov ye dare, and fight me fair,
Veg bloody, Habrew Tur:ssl''
But livery faithful Israeliie
Said, ''Lavc the blaggard be;
Az coo'se, no dacint Jew can fight
Wild SIGH low thrash as he"
This sort of thing was well and good,
Till David jined the throop;
Whin he the matter understood,
Bedad he raised whoop:
ut is burning sin and shame"
He said, ''upon me word,
10 hear this haythen hound defame
The chosen of the Lord.
>"And since no other mon has felt
A wish to tan bis hide,
III right HIM for the champions belt,
"And fifty pounds side"
The cop'ril of the guard he lould
The off'sur Of the day;
What David said, and he made bould
To mintion it at tay.
'Thc "edge du kong" was in that mess,
And hcered the whole discourse;
So he-he couldn't do not less
Iou'd Gin'ral Saul cv course.
The chafe Of Staff toud the High Praste
To sind peremptious orders
For David to report in haste
AT Gin'ral SauI's headquarters.
But Wild the son Of Jesse kim.
And Saul beheld the lad,
So young, SO tnder-loike, and SHIN,
!, made him tearia' mad.
'sOh, holy Moses look at that
SAID saul, THE boys consate;
How can it be that such brat
Can match the heavy weight
'Wid that blood suckin' giant ,hafe
This baby cannot s,hrive;
The Philistine, its my belafe,
Would ate him up alive"
Chin David said, me Lord, its true
This seems = rash iri;iift;
Yet while weigh but pincstun' two,
I'm full Of Ointment.
"a lion and bear kim down
The mountains rugged sides,
slew the bastes, and whit to town
And thTaded off theis hides.
And since for roarin' bruies like them
I've found I'm mon enough,
m quite convinced that can thrim C.
This blaggard pagan rough" I,
Avick!" says Saul, ye'rc full of pluck, e.
And wag your little chin
bike one who rally trusts to luck
And names to thry an win. b